Assanje’s bail refusal

The Swedes seem to have shot themselves in both feet over the Wikileaks affair. Assanje is in the slammer, on a trumped up charge of a sexual nature that is as transparent as cling-film. If the Swedes had stayed out of it and abided by the decision of the English court, there would have been time to draw up proper charges against him under English law. Espionage has been trailed. We hear that US lawyers are rushing around like blue-arsed flies to find something they can charge him with. In that event they could have applied for extradition without producing any evidence to support the charge or indeed that an offence had been committed that was an offence in English law, under Blair’s odious extradition treaty (which is one-sided per se because the American Constitution would probably forbid extradition on those terms). So off goes A to the pen.

Instead, by refusing to accept the umpire’s decision, they have swung popular opinion back to A.

I firmly believe that the whole of this gang of cyber terrorists have to be rounded-up before someone gets hurt. I read in the Bangkok Post that the latest is the release of communications between the US Ambassador in Zimbabwe and Morgan Tsvangirai suggesting that the PM did not support the continuation of sanctions against the ruling party, contrary to official policy. The barbarians who run ZANU(PF) are yelling treason. Tsvangirai’s life is put at risk yet again.

I knew the whole situation was tainted when the obnoxious Aussie uber-leftie, Guardian-scribbler, Form 3 noisemaker John Pilger, was putting up bail money, along with a gaggle of rich celebs. When A threatened to bring down another major bank, my sympathy for the underdog disappeared with the realisation that the guy is a megalomaniac who wants to recast world order according to his personal beliefs